Lava partners with the Build With Celo hackathon

We’re proud to announce that Lava Network is working with Celo to sponsor a bounty for their #BuildWithCelo hackathon!

Tl;DR

• Lava Network is teaming up with its first hackathon partner to provide trustless blockchain data access
• Lava Network will offer a bounty for builders participating in the Build with Celo hackathon
• The best projects using a Lava RPC node will split a 1000 cUSD prize pot

Build with Celo Hackathon

Build With Celo is a virtual hackathon that invites values-aligned founders and builders worldwide to design and, ultimately, ship their best ideas on the Celo carbon-negative, open source, mobile-first blockchain. Millions of people currently benefit from assets and applications built on Celo, and with this hackathon, Celo is primed to help many more.

Lava’s RPC Bounty

Lava Network is partnering with Celo to provide hackathon builders with RPC access to the Celo Blockchain, and to distribute a 1000 cUSD prize pool among the top 3 teams to use a Lava RPC node over the course of the hackathon.

The winning teams will be decided based on overall quality of the project as well as Celo / Lava value alignment, with the following prizes:

🥇 1st place — 600 cUSD

🥈 2nd place — 300 cUSD

🥉 3rd place — 100 cUSD

Building with Celo? Sign up to enter Lava’s RPC Bounty 🌋

About Celo

Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless, layer-1 protocol with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 applications within the DeFi, ReFi, and NFT sectors on Celo. Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo Protocol), the CELO native token, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that enable anyone to use digital assets like currency. Launched on Earth Day in 2020, the open source Celo mainnet now supports 1000+ projects created by developers and artists located around the world.

About Lava

Lava is a protocol that provides applications with scalable, private and uncensored access to accurate blockchain data. Using cryptography and token-aligned incentives, the protocol holds RPC nodes accountable for data integrity and performance quality. Node runners earn rewards for providing robust RPC service, while contributing towards decentralization.

You can learn more at lavanet.xyz, and read an introduction to Lava at https://blog.lavanet.xyz.

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